The state had great plans for the southern leg of Texas 130. An 85-mile-an-hour speed limit, no direct, up-front cost to state taxpayers, millions of dollars in toll revenue for the state. What happened?

Sara Mata holds her son Jeremiah Garcia, 4, on the couch at their home in Laredo, Texas on July 26, 2016. Above them hang reminders of Mata's husband, Manuel Garza, who was a veteran who committed suicide in the Fall of 2015 after struggling with PTSD from doing two tours in Iraq. "He was everything I never thought I could have," Sara Mata said. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten. San Antonio Express-News)